Month: December 2015

Minsk in Belarus, a pleasant surprise!

Minsk in Belarus, a pleasant surprise!

Wow! Entering the elevator and starting the way up to amazed me already then! Going up to 28th floor and getting out at the terrace at “The View” was simply stunning! Just forget about going anywhere else for the view. This is it! Sitting by 

Getting to Belarus

Getting to Belarus

Belarus was mentally added to my Bucket List a few years ago. I was just killing time, looking at a map for new destinations to dream about.  Minsk is not too far from Vilnius and Wizzair has really cheap flights to there from Bergen, so that was 

Road trip in Romania – A suggested itinerary

Road trip in Romania – A suggested itinerary

I love road trips as they give so much flexibility to go where you want. The flipside is that I tend to want to see even more, since I have the possibility. In hindsight, we could favorably skipped some of the places we stopped by, 

In the footsteps of Dracula

In the footsteps of Dracula

More or less by coincidence we ended up following in the footsteps of Dracula, from birth to death – or actually the other way around. On the way from Bucharest to Brasov, we did a detour to Snagov to visit the monastery. In hindsight, we 

Bucharest

Bucharest

I am having a hard time deciding if I liked Bucharest or not. I think it depends very much what you are looking for, obviously. Compared to the charming other towns we visited, I would say I would rather go back to one of those.